Oil slick fouls California beaches near Santa Barbara
The 800 square mile Pacific slick gushed 21,000 gallons daily from an offshore Santa Barbara channel well. Harbor and marina closures followed as 30 boat dwellers evacuated amid fire risk. Union Oil races to seal the leak with mud while a relief well could take two weeks. Wildlife and baitfish suffer as birds die and fishing prospects collapse for years.
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Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara Channel
Oxnard
Union Oil Co
California
Search plane crashes near Taiwai after ship disaster
A four engine US search plane seeking shipwreck survivors crashed 70 miles south of Taiwai. Eighteen of 14 crewmen aboard were killed, one airman rescued by Japanese ship Zuiten Maru with leg burns. The HC130 Hercules was sent from Clark AFB to find survivors of the Shoka Maru sinking. fifteen rescued, eight missing.
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Tokyo
UPI
Taiwai
James Philips
Clark Afb
Philippines
Middletown Rainfall Update to Date
Middletown reports 2.43 inches of rainfall year to date at press time, compared with 2.10 inches recorded by the same date last year. Local weather observers note above average moisture but no severe weather expected in the near term.
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Middletown
Twin-bearing mother quips on baby names in Dundee
Dundee Michigan resident Mrs Francis Barnier announces after delivering her 12th and 13th children as her fourth set of twins that she has run out of double names and ponders Enos and Enough as possible options.
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Dundee, Mich
Francis Barnier
Enos
The Times Herald LECcorRID publication note
A historical newspaper snippet from The Times Herald published in January 1969 outlines publishing details. It lists frequency Monday to Saturday, address at 40 Mulberry St Middletown NY 10940 and subscription rates including mail, carrier, and single copy prices.
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Grange County Publications Division
Ottaway Newspapers Radio
Mulberry St
Middletown
N.Y
Orange
Sullivan
Ulster
Sussex
Pike Counties
Italy’s second general strike disrupts economy nationwide
Rome reports a widespread one day stoppage as workers across shops banks and other sectors refuse to work while unions push for higher pensions. The government had already met most demands, with sources estimating losses around 56 million dollars amid halted production and idle ships.
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Rome
UPI
Italy
Ray seeks permission to pose for 'picture magazine' in jail
Memphis UPI report says Criminal Court Judge W Preston Battle will hear James Earl Ray's request to be photographed in his cell for a magazine. Ray said the publication offered him between 3 and 5 thousand dollars for exclusive photos in connection with his King assassination case.
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Memphis, Tenn
UPI
Criminal Court
W. Preston Battle
James Earl Ray
Picture Magazine
Ray
Martin Luther King Jr
Pope denounces modern revolutionary thought on freedom
Pope Paul VI denounces modern revolutionary currents as promising freedom but making man a slave to passions. He warns that opposing the existing order or others’ opinions does not grant true freedom and condemns these false concepts spreading in modern movements.
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Vatican City
UPI
Paul VI
Mindszenty refuses embassy exit over treason conviction
Austrian Cardinal Franz Koenig said Mindszenty will not leave the U S embassy in Budapest until Hungary annuls his 1949 treason conviction and currency dealings sentence. Mindszenty fled into the embassy during the 1956 uprising and has resided there since.
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Vienna
UPI
Franz Koenig
Joszef Mindszenty
Hungary
U.S
Budapest
Mindszenty
Senate approves Rockefeller deficit budget before assembly
The state Senate on Wednesday approved a 223.9 million deficiency budget by 35 to 0 and sent it to the Assembly where it cleared 77 to 71. The article notes the July timing and mentions the Clay Shaw trial beginning in New Orleans, along with remarks from Pueblo’s engineer about scuttling the ship during North Korean gunboat attack.
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State Senate
Assembly
Clay Shaw
John F. Kennedy
New Orleans
The
Pueblo
Cmdr
Bucher
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